Adjective Clauses aka Relative Clauses Grammar Guide with Worksheets

This 28-page all-in-one adjective clauses pack will give your adult ESL grammar students what they need to understand and use adjective clauses, from a thorough grammar guide that breaks down how they work to seven types of worksheets that build the skill with real practice. Whether your students know them as adjective clauses or relative clauses, this resource has you covered.

Adjective clauses are one of those topics that can stall intermediate students. This pack gives you a complete, ready-to-use solution so you can teach it with confidence, and your students can really get it.

WHAT'S INSIDE this 28-page PDF:

✅ A four-page grammar guide covering: what adjective (relative) clauses are and how they work, common relative pronouns and adverbs, subject and object pronoun clauses with examples, prepositions with adjective clauses, adjective clauses modifying indefinite pronouns, restrictive vs. non-restrictive clauses and comma use, reducing adjective clauses to phrases, and a brief overview of restrictive and non-restrictive appositives

✅ Seven types of printable worksheets. Many have differentiated versions (with and without examples) so you can meet students at different levels:

• ✅ Identifying Clauses – full-page and half-page formats
• ✅ Choose It – circle the correct relative pronoun or adverb
• ✅ Subjects – combine sentence pairs using subject adjective clauses
• ✅ Subject/Object – practice with both pronoun types
• ✅ Matching – match adjective clauses to base sentences
• ✅ Reducing – rewrite sentences using reduced adjective phrases
• ✅ Creating Clauses – fill-in-the-blank prompts for student-generated sentences

✅ Answer keys (of course)

HOW TO USE THIS GRAMMAR PACK:

Start with the grammar guide. It's detailed enough to stand on its own as direct instruction or work through it together as a class. The explanations are clear and build logically, so students aren't left guessing.

Then move into the worksheets. Use them in whatever order fits your lesson plan. These can be classwork, homework, partner practice, or a review activity. The differentiated versions let you hand the same worksheet to a mixed-level class without anyone feeling lost or bored.

THIS WAS CREATED FOR YOUR ADULT ESL STUDENTS

Intermediate adult ESL grammar students need explanations that are clear and complete, not watered-down. This grammar guide respects their intelligence in that it explains the concept thoroughly with examples they can follow. It’s not just a list of rules to memorize.

The variety of practice types means students aren't just drilling the same pattern over and over. They're identifying, combining, matching, reducing, and creating, all of which builds the kind of flexible understanding that carries over into the kind of language they'll use in daily life, at work, and in academic settings.

This resource also works well for secondary ESL students and high school native English speakers who need to fill gaps in their grammar knowledge.